ABSTRACT
Supposedly Early Paleolithic industry from Indonesia recognized by Dutch paleontologist G.H.R. von Koenigswald in the mid-1930s. The Pacitanian is represented by flake implements and so-called core choppers. The original designation refers to surface finds from terraces of the Baksoka Valley (Java). The Pacitanian has been shown on geomorphological grounds to date to less than 60 Ka. Furthermore, some now view it as a Javanese local variant of the broadly defined Hoabinhian of Southeast Asia. It now seems likely that a great many Pacitanian “artifacts” are, in fact, the result of natural nonhuman processes.
